AfriGeneas Free Persons of Color Forum

In one of the "African American Lives" programs, descendants of the person Henry Louis Gates' oral history identified as his ancestor did not match Gates' Y-dna. So though he has a European y-dna, it doesn't match the family that his family had always identified as progenitor. As Gates said "It's a white man, but some other white man." I may not have quoted him exactly, but that's the gist of it.